Penelope Brown

Best Publications

• Politeness: Some Universals in Language Usage

  Penelope Brown;Stephen C. Levinson

  34420
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• Politeness

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  9282
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• Universals in language usage: Politeness phenomena

  Penelope Brown;Stephen C. Levinson

  7885
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• Universals and cultural variation in turn taking in conversation

  Tanya Stivers;Nicholas J. Enfield;Penelope Brown;Christina Englert

  1616
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• Politeness: Some universals in language use

  P. Brown;S.C. Levinson

  469
  Citations

• Language, Culture, and Society

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  379
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• Differential coding of perception in the world's languages

  Asifa Majid;Asifa Majid;Seán G. Roberts;Ludy Cilissen;Karen Emmorey

  329
  Citations

• The Origins of Syntax in Discourse: A Case Study of Tok Pisin Relatives.

  Gillian Sankoff;Penelope Brown

  285
  Citations

• 'Uphill' and 'downhill' in Tzeltal

  Penelope Brown;Stephen C. Levinson

  264
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• Gaze, questioning and culture

  Federico Rossano;Penelope Brown;Stephen C. Levinson

  231
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• Early Language Experience in a Tseltal Mayan Village

  Marisa Casillas;Penelope Brown;Stephen C. Levinson

  227
  Citations

• How and why are women more polite: Some evidence from a Mayan community

  Penelope Brown

  204
  Citations

• Vision verbs dominate in conversation across cultures, but the ranking of non-visual verbs varies

  Lila San Roque;Kobin H. Kendrick;Elisabeth Norcliffe;Penelope Brown

  194
  Citations

• Politeness: Some Universals in Language Usage (Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics 4)

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  171
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• The INs and ONs of Tzeltal locative expressions: The semantics of static descriptions of location.

  Penelope Brown

  159
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• Language acquisition and language socialization

  Penelope Brown;Suzanne Gaskins

  134
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• Standing divided: Dispositional verbs and locative predications in two Mayan languages

  Jürgen Bohnemeyer;Penelope Brown

  126
  Citations

• Children's first verbs in Tzeltal : evidence for an early verb category

  Penelope Brown

  125
  Citations

• Conversational Structure and Language Acquisition: The Role of Repetition in Tzeltal

  Penelope Brown

  124
  Citations

• Roots or edges? Explaining variation in children's early verb forms across five Mayan languages

  Clifton Pye;Barbara Pfeiler;Lourdes De León;Penelope Brown

  9
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